Robert Charles Mallett

A Lieutenant with the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, Robert died on 9th of March 1943 aged 39. 

Robert was born at Kessingland on 9 June 1903, a son of Henry James and Celia Mallett. He was baptised at Saint Edmund's Church, Kessingland, on 5 July 1903. In 1911 his family lived at Lyndale Cottage, Whites Lane, Kessingland, and this was still the family home in 1921, by which time Robert was working as a carpenter for his father's building company. The family were still living at Lyndale Cottage in 1939, and Robert was a teacher of handicraft woodwork. 

Robert enlisted in The Queen’s Own (Royal West Surrey Regiment), service number 6100902, on 30 July 1940, and attended 168 Officer cadet Training Unit, Aldershot. On 21 December 1940 Robert was commissioned and became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army. He was promoted to (W/S) Lieutenant on 21 June 1942. 

The unit Robert service with, and exactly what happened to him, are not known, but he is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial which lists those who died in the Burma Campaign and have no known grave.